OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Introduction and Style Guide

OSF DCE Application Development Guide—Introduction and Style Guide
— Applications need to be as configuration and location independent as possible. In
particular, this means giving careful thought to the use of name services for
advertizing and finding resources.
— Applications require both local and DCE identities and privileges. They should
follow the recommended models for acquiring and maintaining these privileges
and identities.
— Servers should be administratively interoperable; that is, they should behave like
the standard DCE servers, exporting the recommended management interfaces,
exporting ACL managers, logging errors and messages, and providing for the
standard startup and shutdown mechanisms.
• Distributed security is inherently more complex than local system security (you can’t
just ‘‘lock the door’’). Applications should follow the recommended security
policies rigorously.
• Clients and servers should follow the recommended internationalization guidelines to
ensure character set interoperability.
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